What would be the point of being a blogger about tech when there’s already better tech journalism than I’m able to reasonably provide? A lot of the on-line tech spaces comes with the baggage of left-wing politics, though. If you disagree with leftism, good luck making it big in the industry without extreme hatred against your work and you! If that’s not bad enough, the last few years has basically been “Use the AI and be happy”, which hasn’t been a good change.
I don’t like AI. I’ve also got friends who don’t like AI either. On the contrary: I’ve got coworkers who have it do everything for them, as they try to get credit for things they made using LLMs, as they say they made the LLM output somehow. Do I have anything against people who use AI responsibly? No. But those of us who are against AI-everywhere get targeted unfairly for this as if we were all extremists. It’s mainly a few bad apples who think everything needs a revolution who really are the extremists, but tech is just a cover for those people, and the goal is revolution.
So, with all that being said, why would I write about this type of tech? Most people I know don’t even consider retro computing as something worth doing, and others group anything non-SaaS into retro computing. Almost nobody I know understands the concept of using Unix as a social tool either, which doesn’t help. If only schools taught more tech than just SaaS and Windows. Sadly, that’s not the world we lived in, though.
But how about I keep this blog as a place for things that matter, preferably without needing AI or computers in general forced into everything everywhere? And maybe also for whatever things I just find interesting and want to write about?